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Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself. — Teresa of Avila
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore… — Laozi
What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:… — Sogyal Rinpoche
There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are… — David Whyte
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle,… — Tallulah Bankhead
I've changed my music from time to time so I'm hoping that I can completely change my life from time to time, too. Like live… — David Byrne
I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We… — Mary Pipher
For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here… — Barack Obama
I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he… — Ronald Reagan
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have… — William J. Clinton
I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world. — Alan Greenspan
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be… — James G. Blaine
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will… — Thomas Jefferson
In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial… — Dick Armey
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness -… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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